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Law met Luffy, the love of his life and omega mate, when he was doing his residency at Drum General Hospital.
Well, sort of.
Their story began one day when a severe fire occurred in a large apartment building in the city of Goa. The fire department was able to contain the strong fires just enough for the team to evacuate everyone from the building. Many were severely wounded and in need of medical care– but there was one casualty.
One that would mark the omega for the rest of his life.
Luffy, a young firefighter at the time, received a terrible injury to his chest after he and his older brother, Ace, rushed into the burning building to save a little girl that had yet to be evacuated. The situation became dangerous for them to enter; the building was on the brink of collapse and the fires could no longer be controlled. Against their captain’s orders, they entered, refusing to let a young pup meet her end in those hellish fires.
The two fought through the scorching heat and obstacles littering the floors until they finally found her coughing heavily under the emergency stairs just a few floors away from the lobby. Just when they were on the precipice of success, Ace noticed the roof above them was about to collapse. They weren’t going to make it. So he sacrificed his own life in order to push Luffy and the girl away from the falling rubble, resulting in his death. Luffy was able to shield the pup and prevented her from receiving serious injuries, but the omega wasn’t so fortunate.
When he was dragged out to safety by his team, there on his chest they could see a large burn mark. Right over his heart.
Most of the injured were rushed to Goa’s general hospital, but the vacancy was running low. A quick decision was made, and Luffy was instead taken to a secondary care site along with the rest of the injured, Drum General Hospital.
The halls of the hospital were pure chaos. It was smaller compared to Goa’s so the staff was spread thin, with nurses and doctors moving from one patient after another as fast as they could. All the while, Luffy’s critical condition kept deteriorating. Law was called in to help keep the young man in a stable condition.
He watched as the firefighter’s heart monitor beeped slower and slower with every passing moment. The bleeding from his chest refused to stop from the sheer size of the burnt skin that encompassed the man’s chest. Law just needed to keep him from flatlining or bleeding out until a doctor had an opening. The alpha knew there was nothing else he could do since he wasn't yet cleared for operating on patients without supervision.
The omega’s condition, though, continued to worsen. Law knew what he had to do: in a last ditch effort to save this stranger’s life, Law went against code and made the choice to operate on Luffy. He’d come from a long line of skilled doctors and, frankly, Law had a bit of an egotistical view of his skills despite still being in training.
The alpha dragged the trio of nurses that were with him in Luffy’s room aside to explain his plan. He had become acquainted with them during his residency in the hospital. They went as far as to call themselves his friends, though Law was indecisive in that regard. The group was hesitant as they explained how insane his plan was. They were risking the careers they’d all studied so hard for, but they still stayed by his side and entered the operating room with him.
It was difficult for Law to take in any of the firefighter’s features. He couldn’t even pick up on the man’s secondary gender from the thick smell of blood. His face was caked with soot that covered the distinct scar under his left eye. The tips of his hair were singed from the fire. All Law could do was focus his gaze on the gaping wound on the boy’s chest.
He would save him.
The operation was long and meticulous. At some point Kureha, the head of the entire hospital, was called in, but she did not make a move to stop Law as she hurried into the operation room. It would be too dangerous to remove Law since he was performing such delicate work near the patient's heart, but she was also curious about this supercilious young man. He had a bit of a reputation after all, a prodigy even–typical of alphas in this field.
Once the surgery was completed, she went ahead and reprimanded Law for such rash actions but couldn't deny his exemplary work on such a complicated surgery. In fact, she doubted even the most experienced surgeons in her hospital would have been able to perform with such practice under regular circumstances.
Kureha knew this youngster would have trouble refining his skills due to his attitude and behavior rather than his intelligence; not many of her colleagues would tolerate him.
Thus the senior alpha decided she’d take him under her wing then and there. She rarely took residents, but she couldn’t help but admire Law’s cocky personality. She would train him to be a fine surgeon.
Despite her praise, Law was not completely off the hook. It was decided that he would not be allowed to see the patient and instead Kureha would step in for the young man’s checkups and discharge. The senior alpha took full responsibility, and the details of what happened in that operation room were kept confidential.
The two never came face to face again once Luffy gained consciousness. When the omega woke up, he received the news of his brother’s passing by a crabby old woman. She would continue to come in for his check ups, shooing his friends away when visiting hours were over. Her son Chopper, one of his nurses, was nice though–they even became friends. So at least something good came from his time here.
With the loss of his brother still fresh in his mind, Luffy left that hospital never having met the person who saved his life. He was discharged back to his home in Goa with a pain that would never truly heal and an X shaped scar over his heart.
A scar that would later help Law piece together that Luffy was the man he saved all those years ago.
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Both men went on with their lives after that. Luffy had made the choice to take in the little girl that his brother saved as his own pup. Her name was Tama, with round little cheeks and a shade of purple hair that reminded Luffy of ube desserts–she was a foster care child.
The couple who had Tama under their care could no longer support her without a place to live and expenses rising from all the fire damage and medical bills. The pup would often visit him in his hospital room while he was in recovery, and he couldn't help but grow fond of her.
He knew the loneliness well of having no one at such a young age so he decided that he was not going to allow Tama to experience that same ache.
Many of his friends were a bit hesitant to support his decision at first considering he’d never shown much interest in having pups of his own before, let alone adopting one. Raising a child was a huge responsibility. The group knew he was great with kids but becoming an omega parent at 19 without a mate was no small task, but they couldn’t deny the heartwarming bond these two shared in that depressing hospital room. So they vowed they would be there to support him every step of the way.
Besides, they knew better than to try and persuade Luffy out of something that he had already made up his mind on.
The omega would continue his career as a firefighter despite the trauma he suffered, determined to follow in Ace’s footsteps by saving people’s lives as a firefighter.
Law, meanwhile, faced his fair share of growth and life changing events.
Under Kureha’s intense mentorship, he finished his residency and became one of the most skilled and renowned surgeons in the cardiovascular field. The trio who were his partners in crime during that fateful operation became good friends of his. They even had proof that he did, in fact, admit to what Penguin described as their “manly bond” in the form of a very shaky blurry video of Law drunk in a bar loudly professing words with such emotion that made his sober self quiver in embarrassment.
The alpha’s intense medical career never allowed him to dwell on thoughts of settling down and finding a mate–much to the worry of his parents–but he always knew he wanted a big family. His mother never had any more children after his younger sister Lami. His sister would tease him that at that rate, in her words, Law would end up a “sad lonely nerd.”
Setting foot in the dating life was too demanding when most people in general annoyed him. Law’s friend group always berated him how unfair it was that he, according to Shachi, “won the gene pool lottery” and yet he didn’t take advantage of it. He knew he was an attractive alpha– and a successful one at that–but this tended to draw in desperate people who often only pursued him for his looks or his money. No one ever smelled right to him. They were either obnoxiously sweet or not enticing enough, and they were all boring.
He enjoyed his single life, though something still felt empty.
Law would eventually move to the city of Goa and take over as head surgeon in Goa General hospital. He was grateful for all that Kureha did for him, but he wanted to start fresh in another city. His friends, ever the loyal bunch, transferred with him.
Little did the alpha know at the time that he would reunite with Luffy in that very same city.
Since Law was financially well off, instead of going the traditional way of courting a mate, he made the decision to adopt. After going through the adoption process and paperwork, he became a single alpha father of a snow leopard mink cub named Soba. One of his best friends, Bepo, was a polar bear mink; he knew that orphaned mink children tended to get adopted less compared to human pups.
He wanted to give someone like his friend a new place to call home. It didn’t help that he had a severe case of weakness to cute things so the moment he laid eyes on Soba, he knew that was who he wanted to take in as his son. His own pup.
Law and Luffy would go on to give a loving home to their adoptive children, both becoming single parents despite the social taboo of it all–but they didn’t care. They loved their pups and had people around them for support.
For the both of them, in their own separate corners of Goa, life was turning out good.
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It wouldn’t be until five years later that the alpha and omega would officially meet. A meeting that tragically wouldn’t go off without a hitch.
Law had only been living in Goa for a little over a year in between those five. The city was large so the two never crossed paths out in the streets. It just so happened, however, that their pups attended the same elementary school. Soba was a new kid in the third grade after moving into the city and had befriended Tama who was in the same class as him.
Law and Luffy would often hear stories about their pup’s new best friend. “Soba” this, ‘Tama” that–tale after tale, there was no denying their kids adored each other to bits. They thought to themselves that it was about time the two could introduce themselves to plan play dates and let the kids visit each other outside of school.
Unfortunately, they wouldn’t get the cordial meet-up that they had hoped for.
One day they received a call from the school’s principal about a fight. Law left the hospital in a rush and arrived at the school after breaking several speed limits. When the alpha walked into the office, he saw that Tama’s dad was already there. Sitting beside the pup he recognized was a man with dark brown hair cut short, tan skin, relatively small stature, and a deep scowl on his face. His scent reeked with a sour smell of annoyance and anger, but there was something else underneath.
An omega.
Apparently, both kids got into a fight after Soba was getting bullied for being a mink by another child. Tama ended up escalating the situation after trying to protect her friend, and she hadn’t hesitated to use her hands because her papa Luffy always told her that bullies were jerks who “deserved a good ass-kicking”. The pup said all that with a proud tone in her voice while puffing out her cheeks and chest.
The school of course was not happy and suspended both kids while the bully only got a warning. Law became agitated all throughout the meeting because the principal seemed to be ignoring the fact his son was the actual victim in the situation.
It didn’t help that both Tama and her dad seemed aloof the whole time with boredom written all over their faces. It seemed as if this wasn’t their first time being in the principal's office. The omega only joined in on the conversation when trying to defend his pup and almost starting an altercation with the bully’s parents.
After many heated words between the adults, the pair left the office. Law felt disheartened since this wasn’t a new ordeal for his son. He turned to face Luffy and was about to lament the unfortunate way they met considering their pups' friendship when the omega ended up driving his already delicate nerves to their limits.
When he looked over, Luffy seemed so carefree, seemingly ignorant of the fact that they just came from a meeting about their pups being in a fight. He practically congratulated Tama–even asked if she had won or scored some good hits.
Law was appalled so he butted in, stating that Luffy oughtn’t encourage such behavior. Nothing good ever came from taking the violent way in order to resolve things. Unsurprisingly, Luffy got annoyed, asking who he was to tell him how to parent his own pup.
Luffy had always dealt with people judging and commenting on him as a parent. And now this alpha thought he could butt in and give him his opinion?! This tall, dark skinned, disheveled haired alpha with eye bags so defined it looked like he hadn’t slept in days wanted to tell him how to raise his Tama? Not on his watch--he was probably just like every other alpha who thought he shouldn’t raise a pup without a stupid mate.
His gaze moved lower and noticed something. Wait… Were those tattoos? Luffy thought it was unfair that this stupid alpha was actually a little hot.
The two bickered for a bit but eventually calmed down and took a step back. The omega was the first to leave with Tama in tow. He said goodbye to Soba and commented that he was sorry the mink pup had such a grumpy papa but welcomed him over anytime. Luffy had a shit-eating grin on his face that it caused a thick and throbbing vein on the alpha’s forehead. Law grabbed Soba’s paw and took off to his car with a huff, his face red. It was from anger of course, nothing more.
What an insufferable omega, he thought, this was why he never dated.
He couldn't believe this was what he would have to deal with because, despite the reckless actions, he couldn’t fault Tama for what she did. Nor would he prevent Soba from being friends with her just because it turned out that her dad drove him nuts. He had already moved Soba from a few schools because of bullying.
It pained him to have to see his pup never stay in one school or finish a grade normally for the umpteenth time. When Law noticed Soba coming home happier than usual all those months ago when his friendship with Tama started, the alpha was relieved his pup finally made a friend.
Who was he kidding? He was kind of proud of the little girl for giving those kids a taste of their own medicine.
On the drive home, Law’s mind cleared up and his thoughts drifted back to the omega. Luffy may have been irritating, but Law couldn't help but reminisce about the omega’s smell. When the sour stench in the office had dissipated, it revealed a wild and warm scent: a gentle sweetness of apples, a rich and earthy flower field, and a hint of the sea. It was quite pleasant actually and it didn’t make him gag like other omegan scents in the past had.
He wasn’t bad in the looks department either. Dare Law say, he was even quite cute. With those big chocolate doe eyes, that little button nose, sun-kissed skin, his round and chubby face….
The alpha’s thought process quickly screeched to a halt. He shakily parked the car and entered his estate in a rush. After having a quick supper with Soba and putting him to bed, Law laid awake in his room. He couldn’t believe his inner alpha had betrayed him with such thoughts.
Law would definitely never in a million years ever admit what his mind just conjured. It was a fluke. He certainly wasn’t attracted to Luffy, absolutely not. Luffy was loud, brash, and annoying. He was quite literally all of Law’s least liked attributes jammed into one person. Under no circumstances would he ever, ever fall in love with an omega like that.
Over his dead body.
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Just as the alpha predicted, Luffy and he would tragically continue to interact due to their kids. They planned playdates, trips to the park, and so on. Their pups were excited that their papas had finally met. The two of them didn’t have it in their hearts to be petty and refuse when either Tama or Soba asked to visit their friend.
It was a routine for them to always end up getting on each other's nerves, but they quickly switched to acting civil around their kids whenever it was time to head home. They never sat on the same benches in the park, sitting on opposite ends instead. Waited a bit for the other to leave to avoid walking home together. Giving each other faces or middle fingers when the kids weren't looking.
They took their distaste for each other very seriously.
The interesting thing was that even after all those hostile moments, throwing insults left and right, Law had never been able to put two and two together and recognize Luffy as the young firefighter that he had saved all those years ago. How would things have turned out if Law had been allowed to treat Luffy during his recovery?
Would he still remember him if he’d been able to see Luffy’s clean face and scar under his eye more clearly? Or if not for the fact that he’d been assigned to emergency care duties as his punishment, could he have noticed the little girl with purple hair visiting his patient? The same child that could have helped him recognize the omega in their future encounter?
Maybe they could have sparked a connection back then, a bittersweet romance blossoming from a tragic event–an alpha charmed by a tormented yet charismatic omega.
Or perhaps even if all these things had happened, Luffy would still just be part of Law's memories tucked far away within the depths of his mind as he traversed towards his career goals. The details of the event were difficult to recall from all the adrenaline that was his system that day, making the person's identity inconsequential.
That firefighter was a stranger after all; he was just another patient in Law’s records, caked in soot and his own blood with burns and scars everywhere. All he could remember was his finished work, the X-scarred chest. It lingered in Law’s mind to this day.
It wouldn’t be until much later, when the fires of their distaste settled down, that Law would realize that the man who bore his X-etched craftsmanship on their skin laid under the shirt of an omega he vowed was his worst nightmare.
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Unbeknownst to Luffy and Law, after one fateful trip to the park, their children hatched a devious little idea that would change their lives. Since the kids were oblivious to the childish fights between their parents, Tama and Soba figured that maybe they could set the two of them up. It was a perfectly solid plan in their minds!
They were both single. Their papas wouldn’t need to do any work, and they could just be together! If their plan worked, the two of them would gain a second parent, and they would become closer as siblings. It was a win-win for everyone.
The little ones had no idea that they were right on the mark. Their parents were genuinely harboring feelings that both of them dreaded to come to terms with. Soba and Tama would end up helping their parents far more than themselves by pushing them in the right direction. All because their parents were, in fact, idiots.
Who would want such a troublesome omega or a grouchy alpha, anyways? Definitely not them.
So Trafalgar D. Soba and Monkey D. Tama began their masterful plan: Project Double Papa. It was a chaotic experience where one team was unaware that they were even participating while the other was barreling towards the goal.
The children didn’t really understand the intricacies of love or how two adults start a relationship. That was all yucky grown-up stuff. But they did it. And not just the kids, oh no, Law and Luffy’s respective friends were also in on the plan, the traitors. It was a secret they would take to their graves.
It was hard not to get involved when Tama and Soba came up to them asking questions about love and feelings. Or the fact that they all noticed Law and Luffy talking a bit too much about an alpha and an omega in a way that sounded less and less of dislike.
No, they knew something was going on. So they gave the children some pointers and subtly explained what it would take for two people to fall in love and start a relationship–Law and Luffy clearly being the two people in question. The friend groups wanted their entertainment after all, what better than a cute set up by their friend’s kid?
See, what the little rascals weren’t aware of was that they didn't need to do anything elaborate. All they needed to do was the one thing their parents hated the most–being in each other's presence and having to socialize . That meant they could hang out even more. Brilliant! With this tactic, everything else just fell into place. It was like a long, elaborate line of dominos making its way down to the last piece.
They would accidently make them stumble into each other during walks, get on rides together during fairs, everything and anything to get them closer. That was what their aunties and uncles told them, after all. Two people who loved each other liked to be close.
And it worked!
All the effort the kids put into their plan broke the curse of their parents' single life, bringing them ever closer to fulfilling their goal. When Law and Luffy awkwardly sat them down to explain things, asking if it would be okay if their papas started to date, Tama and Soba were beyond excited. The alpha and omega just sat there stunned as their kids rambled on and on about when they would move in together, unaware that this was their kids' plan all along.
Would Luffy and Tama move in with Law since their house was bigger? Would they be getting any more siblings? They were quickly shushed after that last one.
Law and Luffy took it slow–as slow as they could muster because, as it turned out, when they weren’t at each other's throats the two got along splendidly. Law took his time courting the omega. He never had the opportunity to do this before, and he wanted to do it right.
So they courted and dated for a while. They met each other's friend groups and family. Law immediately regretted everything after he saw how well Lami and Luffy got along; that was a dangerous duo that threatened his sanity. Or how much his parents gushed over Luffy, joking about how they never needed to worry about grandkids. Yet they still teased Law about any new ones in the future.
Luffy’s family was just as crazy as him. An overprotective brother. An amalgamation of parental figures. A scary grandfather. Divorced parents who were divided on either skinning Law or welcoming the alpha in. Actually, their families balanced each other out, Law supposed. Each of them received their respective families’ blessings, and things were able to move along.
Then came the day when Law discovered who Luffy truly was: the firefighter from his past. The two never had many moments when their clothes were off. One trip to the beach would’ve revealed it all much sooner, but Law had always refused those invites. His excuse was that the heat would make his son uncomfortable due to a preference for cooler climates. In reality, though, he was just afraid to see Luffy in less clothing.
The two were laying on Law’s bed, or soon to be their bed. It was their first time going into the “sex stuff,” as Luffy had put it. As Law moved to take off the omega’s shirt, he saw it–that familiar X-shaped scar. It took him by surprise. He couldn’t believe he still remembered it, let alone seeing it once again.
Luffy noticed his hesitance and they talked. They laughed. They cried. Luffy thought that maybe this was fate! Like they were soulmates or something, and this mark tied them together and signified their bond. Law snorted. He accused Luffy of being ridiculously sappy and continued where they’d left off.
They put off Luffy and Tama moving in for a few days to make sure they wouldn’t be making a mistake. The worst thing Law wanted was to realize that maybe this wouldn't work out and break their kids' hearts. The alpha had always faced decisions like this–over thinking things, imagining the worst case scenario. That was why he’d been so hesitant to start a relationship when he had a kid in the picture. What if merging their families wasn’t the right choice?
But it was.
Law realized just how much Luffy lit up and warmed his life. It hadn’t been just the cold and empty part of his bed but his heart. He loved Soba and just having him around was all he thought he’d needed. Yet Luffy filled up that empty spot he felt in his life, an emptiness he’d never wanted to acknowledge. Law loved noticing when Luffy’s scent started to permanently linger around the house, his presence filling every corner of his house. Waking up every morning to the sun peeking from curtains framing Luffy's face made the omega look ethereal. They were the small and domestic things he would hear from colleagues.
And Soba looked so much happier.
It was something he suspected, that Soba might not have been the happiest when it was just the two of them. They had their friends, grandparents and Law’s sister, but Soba didn’t have the best childhood before he came into the alpha’s life. Law thought that maybe a puppy would help so he adopted their dog, Onigiri, but it wasn’t enough. It ate the alpha with guilt that he was doing something wrong. Luffy and Tama had changed that.
Soon, the couple felt the time was right–they would officially become mates.
Luffy didn’t use any heat suppressants since most prescriptions didn’t agree with his body, so they didn’t need to wait long. They arranged and prepared everything, making sure the kids had somewhere to stay. Law stocked up the kitchen to prepare for Luffy’s even larger appetite during his heat. Luffy made sure his nest was the best he’d ever built before. They were ready. During the omega’s next heat, the two gave each other their mark and were joined as a bonded pair.
And so the once separate families of two became four and a dog. Then it became a family of four plus a dog and two cats–and that's how it stayed for a while. Everyone was content with how things turned out. And then it changed for the better thanks to one simple mistake.
Law and Luffy had spent the omega’s heats together even before they bonded, but they took precaution because a pregnancy while they were still courting would have made things difficult. Their relationship was fresh back then, and the two had jobs that would have made caring for a newborn pup hard to balance.
It was a precaution they continued after they mated. A particular cycle came along and, in the heat of the moment–no pun intended–Luffy missed the one thing he’d been able to do consistently without fail up to this point.
He forgot to take his birth control.
Law said it was less likely for an omega to be pupped after being on birth control for so long. It often took a while for the medicine to flush from his body before any pregnancy could take. It was fine, right?
Wrong!
After a few pregnancy tests and one doctor’s appointment later, the mated pair were expecting their first pup together. It was unplanned but wholeheartedly welcomed. Luffy gave birth to their son, Rosi, on a snowy winter's day. Soon after him, they were expecting another–their little princess, Umi. Law had no complaints, of course. His family was growing. It was all he’d ever wanted. He was beyond overjoyed and so grateful that he had Luffy by his side, giving him two more blessings.
Even though the omega mourned his active days and ability to go into work, he was ecstatic for this new chapter in their lives. It would be their next adventure! He loved Law, loved that Law was his alpha. He loved his precious pups. He was happy.
Luffy had thought that Tama was the only good that happened to him after going through the terrible accident that took the life of his brother. Losing Ace had hurt, but he’d gained Tama. His friends. His family. And now he had Law, too.
Ace was probably laughing at them on some cloud up there in the sky, cackling at how ridiculous their story had started. But happy with how it’s being written.